The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.

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The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.
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Langham, William.
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Imprinted at London :: [By the deputies of Christopher Barker],
1579 [i.e. 1597]
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Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
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"The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05054.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.

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Abracock. (See Peach idem.) ¶ Acatia,

ACatia stoppeth the Laske, and the termes, and setteth the loose matrix in the naturall place being drunke with red wine. 2 It is good to be laid to serpigo or wilde fire, all inflama∣tions and hot tumours, wheales, and hote blisters of the mouth, and with eye medicines to heale inflamations, blastings and swellings of the eyes being applied. 3 It maketh the haire blacke being often washed with the water wherein it hath beene soked: The leaues and tender crops of Acatia doe settle and strengthen members that are out of ioynt, if they be bathed in a hot bath, or stewe made with the broth thereof. 4 Being ground with vineger, it abateth the pusshes of the lepry. (See Sloes.) 5 In plasters it helpeth swel∣lings, and humours in the eyes wonderfully, drinke it for the flixe, seethe it in the water of decoction of Pomegranates, or in vineger, and drink it to kill wormes. 6 Vse it in a pessary to stop the flowers, to stop fluxes, vse subfumigatiōs thereof, or els drink it. Seede distilling vse Acatia. 7 It helpeth the holy fire, apo∣stumes and woundes of the eyes, it stoppeth the termes, it healeth creeping sores, the falling of the matrix, it stayeth vomiting, and strengtheneth the stomake, and ceaseth paine. (See Sloes.)

  • Ach 7
  • Blisters 2
  • Blasting 2
  • Eyes apostume 7
  • swolne 2. 4. 7
  • Flixe 1. 5. 6
  • Flowers to stop 1. 6. 7
  • Haire to be blacke 3
  • Holy fire 7
  • ...

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  • Inflamations 2
  • Ioynts out 3
  • Lepry 4
  • Matrix loose 1
  • Mouth blisters 2
  • Pusshes 2. 4
  • Reines running 6
  • Seede distilling 6
  • Stomacke weake 7
  • Swellings 1
  • Tetters 1
  • Vomiting 7
  • Wheales 1
  • Wildfire 1
  • Wormes 5
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